Principal Physical Design Engineer

5 days ago


Cupertino, California, United States ETCHED LLC Full time
About Etched

Etched is a pioneering company in the field of AI chip development, specializing in creating custom hardware for individual model architectures. Our flagship product, Sohu, boasts an order of magnitude more throughput and lower latency than a B200, making it an ideal solution for real-time video generation models and extremely deep chain-of-thought reasoning.

Job Summary

We are seeking an exceptional Principal Physical Design Engineer to join our team. The successful candidate will be responsible for collaborating with third-party design services to implement and verify physical designs, and will play a key role in improving iteration speed on physical design.

Key Responsibilities
  • Supervise the outsourcing of physical design to a third-party service
  • Develop a deep understanding of physical design principles and methodologies
  • Run Physical Design flows to close blocks, support ASIC infrastructure, automate Physical Design flows, and improve CAD infrastructure
  • Drive dashboards that show the convergence of projects related to Physical Design
  • Optimize tool flows, working with EDA vendors to incorporate the latest features
  • Accountable for block-level closure
Requirements
  • 5+ years of previous experience with PD
  • Tools, flow, and design methodology from RTL synthesis to GDSII sign-off
  • Experience with back-end design and timing closure on 3nm-7nm
  • Experience with UPF-based low power design methodology, power verification, synthesis, scan insertion/ATPG, formal verification, floorplanning, placement, CTS, routing, IR drop, and EM/antenna analysis
  • Familiarity with OpenROAD and other automated RTL-to-GDSII flows
  • Familiarity with transformer models and machine learning
  • Ability to program with Python or another scripting language
  • Deeply creative and able to think from first principles
What We Offer
  • Full medical, dental, and vision packages, with 100% of premium covered, 90% for dependents
  • Housing subsidy of $2,000/month for those living within walking distance of the office
  • Daily lunch and dinner in our office
  • Relocation support for those moving to Cupertino


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